(Gerwin Hendriksen) During my work a lot of times I have heard the same rumour. Lots of people are stating that when a system is doing index scans the system is doing well. But is this actual true, that is the question. In my work I experienced a lot of times that I was called to look at a system […]
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Synergist : Why XML in Silverlight is Significant
(David L. Walker) Michael Scherotter was definitely an awesome add to Microsoft’s Silverlight team! Check out some of the awesome things he’s done in the past with XML/XSLT and what he’s working on now with MindJet’s MindManager XML export and XSLT transformation to XAML in a post he called “Create
Can MySQL Become YourSQL?
(Thomas M. Stockwell) Last April, IBM and MySQL AB announced an agreement to port the open-source database called MySQL to the IBM System i platform. This announcement was made at the MySQL Conference & Expo 2007, held at the Santa Clara Convention Center just days before COMMON in Anaheim.
Tip and Tricks: ASP.NET 2.0 AJAX 1.0 Extensions and Master Pages
(Bilal Haidar) In my last article, I went into details on how to integrate ASP.NET 2.0 AJAX 1.0 UpdatePanels with UserControls in your ASP.NET 2.0 web application.
DDL Replication in SQL Server 2000 and 2005
(Dinesh Asanka) You may have wondered how to add, drop, or alter (type or size) a column of a table that is an article of a publication. I have seen this question in many forums and discussion boards. Obviously, dropping the replication, making the necessary changes, and then recreating the replicat
‘Who you gonna call?’ For DB2, you don’t want Ghostbusters!!!
(Willie Favero) While you’re reading today’s post, hum the theme song from the movie "Ghostbusters".
RAC – finally into production
(Syed Jaffar Hussain) It was like a long cherished dream become true when we successfully moved one of our highly OLTP database from the single node to 2 node RAC on AIX platform.
SQL 2005 Backups using LightSpeed
(Don Schlichting) LightSpeed by Quest Software is a third party application for backing up and archiving SQL Server databases. Its backup compression algorithms greatly reduce the amount of disk space needed. The backup file created by LightSpeed can be up to 95% smaller than the original database.
Microsoft Access ‘Northwind Traders’ Migration to Oracle Application Express
This document contains a guide to migrate the commonly used Microsoft Access sample application, Northwind Traders, to Oracle Application Express. This is a multi-step process that utilizes several products to migrate first the database to Oracle and then the application. It is important that these
All Input Data Is Evil—So Make Sure You Handle It Correctly and with Due Care
(Dino Esposito) IT professionals agree that input is a big source of trouble. Input ultimately determines how applications work and wrong or malicious input may cause serious damage. It is extremely important that developers have this fact firmly in mind and consequently apply adequate countermeasur